Gore Vidal Quotes
An American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer, actor and politician.
(1925 - )
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A good deed never goes unpunished.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
[Politics]
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
[Politics]
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
[Action]
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
[Politics]
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
[America]
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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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